| dc.creator | Livingstone, Ian | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-11T14:53:20Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-11T14:53:20Z | |
| dc.date | 1975 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:58:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:58:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Livingstone, Ian. (1975) What do economists really know about population? or, the benefits of cost-benefit. Discussion Papper 222, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/640 | |
| dc.identifier | 318281 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1923 | |
| dc.description | This paper distinguishes two approaches to the economic evaluation
of the benefits of population control, the simple cost-benefit approach and
the approach through macroeconomic models incorporating the population variable.
While indicating some advantages of the second approach, it is suggested that
the two approaches have some important common elements and some of the same
important limitations. Various criticisms are categorised and reviewed. It
is concluded that economists know much less than they think they know about
the rate of return on population control expenditures, and that not too much
weight or generality can be attached to the rather precise estimates made of
the costs and benefits of a prevented birth. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;222 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Economic Development | |
| dc.subject | Population | |
| dc.title | What do economists really know about population? or, the benefits of cost-benefit | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
